Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which rose 5.89% or 31.1 points to trade at 558.7 at the close. Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN) added 5.88% or 42.5 points to end at 765.0 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was up 2.06% or 0.190 points to 9.415 in late trade.
Biggest losers included VTB (MCX:VTBR), which lost 5.14% or 0.0025 points to trade at 0.0459 in late trade. GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) declined 4.70% or 0.0353 points to end at 0.7165 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 4.38% or 0.0372 points to 0.8118.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 150 to 76 and 20 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 4.83% to 16.290.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.32% or 4.10 to $1268.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.61% or 0.35 to hit $57.91 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.56% or 0.36 to trade at $64.16 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.14% to 58.6916, while EUR/RUB rose 0.13% to 69.7150.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 92.89.